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– In This Issue – • Island Calendar • Let’s Eat! Straight Wharf Restaurant • MusACK: Better Than Ezra • Wine Cellar: Nebbiolo
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Thursday, Sept. 3 Sunrise Yoga
7:30 a.m. daily, Children’s Beach, Harborview Way. Bettina Broer leads this early-morning yoga session. Bring your own mat.
Birding Folger’s Marsh
8 a.m. Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, 158 Polpis Road. Nantucket Conservation Foundation ecologist and birding expert Neil Foley leads this tour of Folger’s Marsh in search of its abundant bird life. Register on events page of www.nantucketconservation.org
Kayak Tour
8 a.m. Location provided upon registration. Nantucket Land & Water Council waterkeeper RJ Turcotte leads this end-of-season kayak tour of Nantucket Harbor. Register at www.nantucketlandandwater.org/tours
Pick Your Own Vegetables
8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. Journey on the Bartlett’s Farm hay wagon into the heart of its produce fields, with plenty of time to fill your own bag.
Feeding Frenzy at the Aquarium
9 a.m. Monday-Saturday, Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 32 Washington St. Join MMA aquarists and staff as they feed the creatures at the aquarium. Registration required on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org
Ravenous Reptiles
9 a.m. Monday-Saturday, Hinchman House Natural Science Museum, 7 Milk St. Join MMA staff as they feed the hungry animals at the museum. $20. Registration recommended on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org
Marine Storytime
9:15 a.m. Monday-Saturday, Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 32 Washington St. An MMA educator will read a marine- or science-themed book, introduce one of the MMA’s animal friends and finish with an activity related to the book. Registration recommended on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org
Nature Walk
9:30 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. Sconset Trust members are invited to walk along the LLNF’s trails and learn about the unique flora
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Nantucket singer-songwriter Sean Lee plays the Rose & Crown Friday and Saturday.
Urgent Access Urgent Access at Nantucket Cottage Hospital offers easy and convenient medical care for non-life-threatening conditions and is located in the Anderson Building on the hospital campus at 57 Prospect Street. Walk-ins only, no appointments needed. FALL HOURS: • Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. • Closed Sundays in the off-season Urgent Access is not considered to be an Urgent Care Center by health insurance plans, therefore your co-payment benefits for urgent care services typically will not apply. Instead, your visit will likely be billed as a physician office visit. Visit nantuckethospital.org/urgentaccess for more information and options for virtual urgent care.
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Straight Wharf: 50 years of waterfront elegance By Francesca Giangiulio fgiangiulio@inkym.com
Let’s Eat!
There is something comforting about a restaurant that still feels like a restaurant. Which, contrary to popular belief, is not just a place to eat food. At Straight Wharf, the harbor is framed by large windows and gray-shingled walls, hurricane candles cast a soft glow across the dining room and, at the end of the meal, the bill arrives hand-written. Not printed on a receipt. Not delivered to your phone. Hand-written, as if it were a little thank-you note for having spent the evening there. It is a small gesture, but it says a lot about the Straight Wharf philosophy. This year, the Nantucket culinary icon is celebrating 50 seasons on the island, a milestone that could easily invite a restaurant to rest on its laurels. Instead, chef and partner Gabriel Frasca, who has been at Straight Wharf for 20 years, seems more interested in figuring out what comes next. For Frasca, the restaurant’s longevity is not about keeping everything exactly as it was. It is about knowing what should never change. “When I first took over in 2006, it was a return to simplicity,” Frasca said. “In the food, a return to warmth and hospitality in the service, and really the menu had been laid out for us, you know, 30 years prior. Straight Wharf was about cooking simply, cooking lo-
cally, cooking seasonally.” Those principles are still evident from the first bite. If you are dining at Straight Wharf, get there a little early and spend some time on the bar side. On our visit, that meant a couple of seasonal taquitos, one filled with halibut ceviche and another inspired by Mexican street corn. The ceviche was fresh and citrusy, with just enough spicy tang from chili aioli, while the warm street-corn taquito was comforting and unmistakably summery. They were small bites, but they offered a preview of what was to come: food that feels rooted in the season and lets base ingredients shine. The meal officially begins with another Nantucket classic: Straight Wharf ’s bluefish pâté. Rich and briny, it comes topped with perfectly cut chives and just a dash of paprika. A very “Nantucket” start to the meal. Bluefish pâté is something you’ll find at nearly every summer barbecue or dinner party. It’s a simple, recognizable dish that sets the tone for making you feel welcome and at home. Straight Wharf serves a two-course prix fixe menu, and our first courses offered two very different interpretations of what the
Every meal at Straight Wharf starts with bluefish pâté.
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Straight Wharf chicken under a brick.
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Straight Wharf’s deconstructed clambake is delicious and easy to eat.
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restaurant does well. The clam bake — one of the only things Frasca says has not changed in 50 years — is an elevated take on the New England cookout, with lobster and clams already shelled and served alongside chorizo, leeks and impossibly thin, crispy potatoes. The sweet, buttered lobster is rich and luscious, with the meaty, seasoned sausage providing a savory counterpoint. The potatoes bring crunch, while occasional bursts of clam bring you right back to the ocean. Then there was the watermelon gazpacho, which could not have been more different. Fresh, colorful and almost startlingly bright, the soup tasted like a farm stand in a bowl, which I think is near Frasca’s intention. Crisp cherry tomatoes, diced cucumber and onion, pistachios, feta and garden flowers floated across the surface. It was sweet and acidic, creamy and crunchy, with the pistachios adding nuttiness and the feta providing just enough richness to keep the whole thing balanced. It is also one of the dishes that has become synonymous with Straight Wharf. Frasca never expected the late-summer soup to become such a hit – or to eventually appear in Food & Wine magazine – but customers now return specifically for it. He has changed the recipe over the years, but the idea has remained the same. “It’s sort of Nantucket on a plate,” he said.
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“It’s too hot here at 5:30. This is gazpacho weather, oyster weather.” That seasonal thinking is central to the way Frasca approaches the menu. Rather than beginning with a dish he wants to create and then figuring out how to source it, the kitchen starts with what is actually available. “We start with ingredient lists. We talk to our purveyors and see what’s available and good now, and then from there you start to write a story,” he said. The story, in this case, is not just a dish. It is the entire menu. That might mean pairing mushrooms with whitefish and saving the asparagus and peas for scallops, then finding the right grain or vegetable to complement the chicken. It is a matter of balance and editing: making sure the same ingredients do not appear in every “sentence” of the menu. One of Frasca’s favorite dishes offers perhaps the clearest example of that philosophy. The tuna with eggplant caponata, basil aioli and cherry tomatoes is not flashy about its local sourcing. Instead, it lets all those ingredients quietly add up to something distinctly Nantucket. “It’s a lot of garden herbs,” Frasca said. “It’s pretty and it’s delicious, but it’s island eggplant and island onions and island herbs
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Straight Wharf’s gazpacho is the perfect soup for a warm Nantucket night.
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Better Than Ezra plays the alt-rock long game By Kendall Graham kgraham@inkym.com
There are worse problems for a rock band than writing a song everybody remembers, but longevity means learning how to live beyond it. For Better Than Ezra, that song was “Good,” the propulsive, instantly-recognizable alternative-rock single that helped launch the Louisiana band from a fixture of the Southern college circuit into one of the defining acts of the mid-1990s. But reducing Better Than Ezra to those three-and-a-half minutes misses a lot of the story. More than three decades later, the band is still touring, recording and finding ways to exist outside the long shadow cast by its biggest hit. Better Than Ezra will bring its lengthy catalog to The Muse Saturday evening for a one-night-only concert. The band’s longevity is particularly notable considering how thoroughly the musical landscape around it has changed. Better Than Ezra formed at Louisiana State University in 1988, emerging from the same late-80s, early-90s college-rock ecosystem that rewarded jangly guitars, sharp melodies and bands willing to spend years building audiences from the ground up. Gradually growing beyond Baton Rouge, the band’s breakthrough album, “Deluxe,” was initially released independently in 1993
MusACK before the band signed with Elektra Records and the album received a wider release. “Good” ultimately reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock chart, and “Deluxe” went multi-platinum. Yet the band refused to let that early hit define the scope of their career. The band followed “Deluxe” with 1996’s “Friction, Baby,” which produced “Desperately Wanting,” another of its most enduring songs, along with “King of New Orleans.” Later releases expanded a catalog that now stretches across several generations of alternative and pop-rock. There is an accessibility to their music that helps explain why it has remained useful long after the era that produced it disappeared. “Good” may immediately transport some listeners back to 1995, but a song like “Desperately Wanting” does not require an understanding of 1990s radio programming to work. Its restless desire and enormous chorus remain fairly universal propositions. In 2024, Better Than Ezra released “Super Magick,” its first full-length album in a decade. Rather than treating new material as an obligatory excuse to go back on tour, the record found the band drawing from country, Britpop, dub, psychedelic rock and
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Better than Ezra has been a fixture on the alternative rock scene since hitting it big in 1993 with the chart-topping “Good.”
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The fog grape: Nebbiolo, or a tale of two gray ladies
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La Morra in the Cuneo province of Italy. By Peter McEachern I&M Columnist
Wine Cellar: The Noble Grapes
The fog comes for the wharf first. You are watching the harbor – the masts, the ferry line, the roof lines of town beyond – and then you are watching less of it, and then less, as the gray moves in off the water and takes the world back, piece by piece. The far shore goes. The boats at their moorings go, their halyards still ticking somewhere out in the white. The end of the pier dissolves to the third piling, then the second, until you could believe the island simply stops a boat-length past your feet. The shingles of the old houses darken and bead. Salt settles on your lips, and the damp finds the back of your neck. Off in the erased distance, a foghorn lets out its one long vowel, mournful and patient, and it reaches you
softened and half a beat late, as though it too had to feel its way in. This is not silence. It is silence with a hand pressed over its mouth — a hush with weight to it, the whole harbor talking to itself with the lights off. They call this place the Grey Lady, and on a morning like this you understand that it is not a nickname but a description. The islanders even shorten her to three letters, ACK, on luggage tags and ferry manifests — an in-joke for a place that spends half its life half-hidden. And 5,000 miles from this wharf, there is another gray lady and another fog: the nebbia that rolls off the rivers of Piedmont every
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The rolling hills of Neive in the Langhe wine region of the Piedmont.
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October and settles over the vineyards of the Langhe just as the last grape of the harvest ripens in the mist. The Italians named that grape for the fog itself. It is called Nebbiolo, picked last of all, when the vines have all but vanished into the cloud, a wine quite literally born of fog, and a fitting final bottle for a summer series written from a fog-bound island. The fog grape Nebbiolo is wine’s great paradox, and the fog is the first clue. It ripens so late that the autumn mists arrive before the pickers do. The grape almost has to be coaxed out of the cloud. In the glass, it looks nearly fragile – pale garnet, translucent, no darker than a Pinot Noir – and then it lands on the palate with the fiercest tannins and the highest acidity of any major red grape on Earth. An iron fist in a velvet glove. Its signature perfume is among the strangest and most beautiful in all of wine, a pairing the Italians call catrame e rose – tar and roses – threaded with dried cherry, licorice, leather and dried autumn herbs. There is romance even in the arguments over the name. Most hold that nebbia refers to the harvest fog. Some say it describes the pale, misty bloom that veils the ripe berries. A few insist it comes instead from nobile, meaning noble. Take your pick. All three are true of the
wine. Nebbiolo has grown in these hills since at least the 13th century and was so prized that local lore claims a medieval Piedmontese who cut down a Nebbiolo vine could lose his right hand for it. This is Italy’s Burgundy: one difficult, transparent grape, grown across a mosaic of named hillsides that neighbors have argued over for generations, in a stretch of country smaller than the Napa Valley, and wrapped in a food culture good enough to bend the wine to its will. The comparison to Burgundy is not idle. Piemonte means “foot of the mountains,” for these are the last rumpled hills before the Alps rise, their pale limestone-and-marl soils folding into hundreds of distinct exposures. In 2010, growers formally mapped them, giving Barolo a register of named crus – the Menzioni Geografiche Aggiuntive, Piedmont’s answer to the Burgundian climat – so that a single village can now bottle a dozen subtly different Nebbiolos from a dozen adjacent slopes. Presiding over it all is Alba, the little capital of the Langhe, whose autumn markets fill each year with the most valuable food on Earth, the white truffle, but we will come to that. The two B’s Almost all of the glory comes down to two towns and one river. On the right bank of the Tanaro, in the fog-prone heart of the Langhe
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just outside Alba, lie Barolo and Barbaresco — both, by law, 100 percent Nebbiolo, and between them, the very summit of Italian red wine. Barolo is the king, “the wine of kings and the king of wines,” as the old line has it. It is the bigger, prouder, longer-lived of the pair, and even Barolo changes character from village to village. The wines of La Morra and Barolo itself, on softer soils to the west (the chalky blue marls geologists call Tortonian), are perfumed and comparatively approachable, while those of Serralunga d’Alba and Monforte to the east (older, sandier Serravallian rock) are structured, austere and built to outlast you. Its greatest vineyards are named with the reverence Burgundians reserve for their own – Cannubi, Brunate, Rocche dell ’Annunziata, Monprivato, Vigna Rionda – and its greatest houses run from unbending traditionalists (Giacomo Conterno, whose Monfortino is one of the world’s monumental reds; Bartolo Mascarello; Giuseppe Rinaldi; Bruno Giacosa) to the modernists who, in the “Barolo wars” of the 1980s and 1990s, fought them over French barrels and shorter fermentations. Paolo Scavino, Luciano Sandrone, Vietti and Roberto Voerzio became the modern standard-bearers. The two camps have long
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Nebbiolo grapes in the vineyard.
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and tuna that the Albacore brings in for us and cherry tomatoes that we get every morning from the island and it’s our own private label olive oil. There’s just a bunch of little things there that please me. It sort of seems like a distillation of what it is that we try to do.” That idea – that a dish can become a portrait of a place simply by paying attention to what is growing, swimming and being harvested around it – is central to the Straight Wharf experience. The food does not have to announce that it is local. It just has to taste like the season. It is also why the food at Straight Wharf can feel so distinctly of its place without becoming predictable. For the main courses, the dayboat scallops were luxurious in the best sense of the word. Rich and buttery with a crisp, seasoned exterior, they came with parsnip, mushrooms, bacon and asparagus. Crispy green garlic and the house bacon added saltiness, while the mushrooms brought an almost meaty umami quality to the dish, and asparagus rounded out the picture with a bright, earthy crunch. The chicken under a brick was more rustic, but no less memorable. The meat was impossibly juicy and tender – nearly melting on the tongue – with beautifully crisp skin. Tart cherries, nutty, Parmigiano-forward farro and bitter broccoli rabe created a combination I don’t think I’ve ever had before, each element pushing against the others in just the right ratio to create perfect harmony. It’s the kind of meal that feels like it should be eaten next to a fireplace. And then came dessert. The seasonal galette arrived stuffed with syrupy blueberries and sweet peaches, the flaky pastry spilling its fruit onto the plate when we cut into it. Lemon verbena ice cream added a creamy tartness that kept the dessert from becoming too sweet. I ate until I could barely lift my spoon. The meal ended, as it always does, with Straight Wharf ’s rosemary shortbread: crisp, buttery and pleasantly herbal. You will not leave Straight Wharf hungry. But Frasca hopes hunger is not the thing you remember most. “I hope the food’s wonderful. I hope they enjoy it. But Stop & Shop sells food, and we provide hospitality, and food is one of the ways which we provide hospitality. But it’s not the only or most important way,” he said. “So I hope that holistically, the experience is the experience.” That philosophy feels particularly meaningful at a time when going out to eat can sometimes feel strangely impersonal. There are plenty of restaurants where the food
is technically excellent but the experience feels transactional, where hospitality becomes an afterthought to the spectacle of the meal. Straight Wharf is interested in something simpler, yet just as spectacular: making people feel taken care of. That does not mean the restaurant has remained frozen in 1976. Frasca said it has changed “immeasurably” over the last 50 years, as staff, menus, clientele and even attitudes toward eating and drinking have evolved. The trick, he said, is knowing which parts can change. “I think it’s important that we remain true to sort of what our essential core values are, but then be very willing to change kind of everything else.” That may be the secret to making it to 50. Frasca described himself as a “caretaker” of Straight Wharf, someone who inherited a restaurant shaped by generations of people before him and whose job is simply to carry it forward. “So many wonderful people put their intention and their thoughts and parts of their lives and their kids and whatever into this space,” he said. “It is truly an honor to get to stand on their shoulders and try to keep it rolling.” After 50 years, Straight Wharf is still rolling. The menu changes with the season. The people change. The restaurant changes. But the harbor is still outside those windows, the food is still built around what is fresh and local, and someone still takes the time to write your bill by hand.
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The dayboat scallops are rich velvety with a pleasing crisp, seasoned exterior.
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Straight Wharf’s berry galette with lemon verbena ice cream.
Start your evening with taquitos in the Straight Wharf bar.
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and fauna found on the 275-acre nature preserve. Register on calendar page of www.llnf.org
Terrific Thursday Crafting 10 a.m.-noon, Children’s Beach bandstand. Nantucket Culture & Tourism hosts a morning of crafting for children of all ages.
Tree Tour 10 a.m. Nantucket Land & Water Council, 6 Ash Lane. Nantucket waterkeeper RJ Turcotte leads a tour of downtown trees and discusses how the island’s trees have been preserved over the decades. Tickets at www. nantucketlandwater.org
Hands-on History 10:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, Nantucket Whaling Museum Discovery Room, 13 Broad St. Hands-on family programming connecting the Nantucket Historical Association’s 2026 exhibition “The Wider World and Scrimshaw” with a craft for participants to make and take home. Register on calendar page of www.nha.org
Walking Tour
10:45 a.m. Monday-Saturday, Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. The Nantucket Historical Association’s downtown walking tour transports visitors on a journey through Nantucket’s past and tells the story of the rise and the fall of the whaling industry, the rise of tourism and the impacts the island’s economy had on social and racial development on Nantucket. Reserve tickets at www.nha.org
Mini Movers
11 a.m. Hinchman House Natural Science Museum, 7 Milk St. Young children and their caregivers are invited to wiggle, dance and explore the animal kingdom through movement, music and hands-on discovery. $15. Additional session Saturday. Registration recommended on calendar page of www.mariamitchell. org. Additional session Tuesday.
Kids Metal Detecting 101
2 p.m. Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 2 p.m. Metal detectorist Nikoline Bohr leads this hands-on adventure just for kids. Learn the basics of metal detecting while searching for treasure on the beach. $30. Registration required on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org. Additional sessions Tuesday, Sept. 1 and Thursday, Sept. 3.
Sconset Preservation Tour
Philosophy Club
3 p.m. 1 New St., Sconset. Explore scenic Sconset with the Nantucket Preservation Trust and learn about the history of this unique fishing settlement at the eastern edge of the island. Register on events page of www.nantucketpreservation.org
6 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. Deep thinkers and ponderers wanted for thoughtful and engaging conversation. Led by reference library staff member James Grieder. All are welcome.
Live Music: Lonesome Joy
6 p.m. Erica Wilson, 25 Main St. An evening of creativity, conversation and community. All are welcome, whether you’re a seasoned embroiderer or threading your first needle. Free.
4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. The keyboard-fueled rock and roll revival Lonesome Joy will perform. Second show 4 p.m. Friday.
Art Reception: AAN
5 p.m. Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 8 Federal St. The Artists Association of Nantucket will host a reception for its 10-by-10 exhibition, on display through Aug. Sept. 22.
Evening Art
5 p.m. Maria Mitchell Association Natural Science Museum, 7 Milk St. Artist Nikoline Bohr instructs participants on how to create a personal work of art inspired by Nantucket. Intended for adults. $45. Registration required on calendar page of www. mariamitchell.org
Sip and Stitch
Nighttime Marine Ecology Field Trip
7:45 p.m. Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 32 Washington St. The aquarium staff discusses the fish, squid, crabs and other creatures that come out to feed at night in the shallow waters of Nantucket Harbor. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org
Owl Prowl
8 p.m. Maria Mitchell Association, 4 Vestal St. MMA field ornithologist and I&M columnist Ginger Andrews leads this search for owls and other nocturnal animals and
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since made their peace, and the wines have never been finer. Barbaresco is the other B, and if Barolo is the king, Barbaresco is the one usually called the queen: no lesser, only different. Grown a little lower and a shade warmer, nearer the moderating river, it tends to arrive with more immediate perfume and a touch less brawn, which means it can be broached a few years sooner without surrendering an ounce of Nebbiolo’s soul. Angelo Gaja, in the second half of the last century, made single-vineyard Barbaresco famous around the world and hauled all of Piedmont onto the global fine-wine stage behind him. Bruno Giacosa made wines here of comparable genius, and estates like Roagna and Marchesi di Grésy, on the storied Martinenga slope, keep the flame. But the insider’s move is humbler: the Produttori del Barbaresco, the village co-operative, bottles a range of single-cru Riservas – Asili, Rabajà, Montestefano – that are some of the truest, most honest Nebbiolo made anywhere, at prices that their quality has no business commanding. What unites the two B’s, in the end, is the way they win you over — slowly. Nebbiolo does not flatter on the first sip; its pale color promises something gentle, but its tannins say otherwise. It can take a few bottles and a few years before the fog in the glass parts and you understand what all the fuss is about. But once it does, no other red quite replaces it. People do not merely like Nebbiolo. They fall for it and then spend the rest of their drinking lives chasing that first clear glimpse through the mist. Where to begin You need not start at the summit. The local way is to climb the ladder. A bottle labeled simply Langhe Nebbiolo – often the younger vines of a serious Barolo grower, declassified – offers the tar and roses and the silken perfume at a third of the price and two years sooner. From there, a Barbaresco; then a village Barolo; then, when you are ready to be patient, a single-vineyard Barolo from a great vintage. And for the adventurous, Nebbiolo lives a quieter life beyond the two B’s as well: as fresh Roero and everyday Nebbiolo d’Alba just across the river; as Gattinara, Ghemme and cliff-clinging Carema up in the mountainous Alto Piemonte; and as Chiavennasca on the vertiginous terraces of Valtellina, every one of them worth the detour. Here, patience is not a virtue but a requirement. A young Langhe Nebbiolo drinks beautifully tonight, but a serious Barolo or
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The vineyards of the Piedmont in Barbaresco, Italy. Barbaresco is, in its first years, a clenched fist: all tannin and acid and withheld promise, giving almost nothing away. Give it time. A decade in a dark, cool cellar begins to loosen its grip. Two decades, or three, can be transcendent, as the fierce structure melts and the fog lifts to reveal dried roses, truffle, tar, tea and forest floor. Nebbiolo’s pale color will have browned to a lovely faded brick by then, fooling everyone but you. Buy the great vintages, lay them down and forget them for 10 years. The truly celebrated Barolo years – the 2010 and the 2016 among recent legends – are worth hunting down and hiding away. Your future self will thank you. This grape keeps every promise it makes, but only ever on its own schedule. Drink it with The Langhe’s cooking and its wine grew up at the same table, and it shows. The transcendent pairing – the one worth building a pilgrimage around – is the white truffle of Alba, the fragrant, homely, absurdly precious tuber that comes into season in autumn, just as the fog descends, shaved in pale curls over a plate of tajarin, the region’s gossamer egg pasta, or over a simple fried egg, with a glass of aged Barolo at its side. Short of that particular heaven, brasato al Barolo, beef braised for hours in the wine itself; agnolotti del plin; game of every kind, including hare, wild boar and pheasant; a
wintry mushroom risotto; and the great aged cheeses of Piedmont, Castelmagno and old Parmigiano. Begin the meal, if you can, the Piedmontese way – with vitello tonnato and a warm bagna càuda, a glass of a lighter young Nebbiolo or the region’s everyday Barbera – and save the aged Barolo for the truffle and the braise. This is autumn-and-firelight wine: food for the season when the fog comes down. A final word Labor Day is almost upon us, the summer people are thinning out and this morning the fog is back on the harbor, doing what it always does taking the world in one piece at a time, softening the foghorn, beading on the rail, pressing its wet hand over the mouth of the town. I have a glass of Barolo open on the table, brick-red and unhurried, and I notice that the two of them are about the same work. The fog has quieted the whole island. The wine has quieted the whole table. Each asks the same thing of you: to stop straining for the far shore, to sit down inside the grayness and let the world come close and slow. That, in the end, is what these 15 weeks were about – from the Chardonnay we opened with back in June to the king in the glass tonight – not grapes for their own sake, but the way a good bottle, like the fog, lowers
the volume of a room and gathers the people in it a little closer. Two gray ladies, then, one of the sea and one of the hills, each keeping her secrets until you give up trying to see through her and simply agree to be kept. Our own fog will hold the harbor now until spring. When it lifts, I will know the summer is back, and I know exactly what I will pour to greet it. Thank you for spending the season in the glass with me. The Noble Grape returns next summer — but you need not wait that long for the next pour. This fall, as the fog keeps the island company through the off-season, a companion series begins: Fare Winds & Full Glasses, about wine and food together, and about the ships that carried nearly all of it to our tables. Through autumn, winter and spring – the harvest and the Thanksgiving crowd, the holiday roast and the New Year’s fizz, the deep-winter braise and the first green days of May – we will set the seasonal table properly. So pull up a chair, and I’ll see you when the leaves turn. Fair winds, fare winds and full glasses. Salute. Peter McEachern is the general manager of the Nantucket Yacht Club. He has been buying wine, creating wine lists and running wine tastings since 1983. He can be reached at peter@nantucketyachtclub.org
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birds. Intended for adults and children 8 and up. $30. Registration required on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org
Live Music: Tonic
9 p.m. The Muse, 44 Surfside Road. Los Angeles-based rock band Tonic will perform. 21 and over. Tickets at www.musenantucket.com/shows.
Live Music: The Thing
10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. New York City-based rock band The Thing will perform. 21 and over.
Friday, Sept. 4 Marine Ecology Field Trip
8:30 a.m. Hither Creek, Madaket, near 25 Massachusetts Ave. Adults and children 8 and older are invited to help Maria Mitchell Association staff collect, identify and release fish, crabs, shrimp and other marine creatures with a seine net. Additional sessions Monday and Wednesday. Tickets, $35, on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org
Nature Walk: Tawpawshaw Hills
8:30 a.m. Location provided upon registration. The Nantucket Conservation Foundation leads this walk through the hilly western section of the middle moors. Register on events page of www.nantucketconservation.org
Pick Your Own Flowers
8:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. Spend a picturesque morning in the farm’s organic flower fields. The Bartlett’s team provides the clippers and guidance to help you create the perfect bouquet. Rain or shine.
Kids Bird Watching
9 a.m. Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 32 Washington St. Children 7 and up are invited to learn how to observe, listen for and identify the birds of Nantucket’s coastal ecosystem. $25. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org
Nature Walk: Wildflowers
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10 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. LLNF director of research and conservation Sarah Bois leads this tour of the sandplain grasslands and heathlands on the island’s west end to view the diversity of colors, shapes and sizes of Nantucket’s wildflowers. Register on calendar page of www.llnf.org
Dharma Yoga
10:15 a.m., Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. Joanne Burnham of Dharma Yoga leads this session to strengthen and lengthen, enliven and invigorate, soothe and calm. Visit www.
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new wave while maintaining the melodic instincts that have always anchored its music. Songs like “Mystified” and “Live A Little” sound recognizably like Better Than Ezra without attempting to reproduce “Deluxe” 30 years later. It is the distinction between preserving a career and embalming one. Plenty of bands remain on the road decades after their commercial peaks, and there is nothing inherently wrong with giving an audience the songs it came to hear. Better Than Ezra certainly understands that people walking into a show in 2026 are going to want “Good.” The band has never behaved as if familiarity were something to apologize for. The difference is that the familiar material has remained part of an ongoing catalog rather than the sole focus of it. Today’s lineup includes Kevin Griffin on vocals and guitar, longtime bassist Tom Drummond, guitarist and keyboardist James Arthur Payne Jr. and drummer Michael Jerome.
Griffin and Drummond have now been making music together for over 35 years, a span that has carried Better Than Ezra from LSU house parties through major-label success, changing lineups and formats, and an industry almost unrecognizable from the one in which the band began. A working rock band, playing a relatively intimate room, drawing from songs written when alternative rock ruled commercial radio alongside music made decades after that world vanished; that is the more interesting measure of Better Than Ezra’s success. Getting one song into the cultural bloodstream is extraordinarily difficult. Getting people to keep showing up after the moment surrounding that song has passed is another achievement entirely. Better Than Ezra has spent more than three decades finding out what comes after “Good.” As it turns out, quite a lot did. Better Than Ezra performs at The Muse at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, with doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $88.17, available at musenantucket.com/shows
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Bug Bonanza
11 a.m. Mill Hill Park, off Prospect Street. Maria Mitchell Association staff lead this exploration of the insects and small creatures that live in the grasses, flowers and trees of Nantucket. Intended for children 4 and up and adults. $20. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org. Additional sessions Monday and Wednesday.
Cobblestone Stories
11 a.m. Pacific National Bank, 61 Main St. Maria Mitchell Association natural historian Rich Blundell will discuss the billion years of the Earth’s history written into the cobblestones of downtown Nantucket. Register on calendar page of www.mariammitchell.org
Live Music: Ty Fly
1 p.m., Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Nantucket’s own multi-instrumentalist, Tyler “Ty Fly” Fleischut, will perform.
Maria Mitchell and the Daring Daughters of Nantucket
2 p.m. Mitchell House, 1 Vestal St. Mitchell House curator Jascin Leonardo Finger leads this walking tour exploring the lives of Nantucket’s famous and infamous women. Registration required on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org
Wines & Rinds
3:30-5 p.m. Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. A relaxed, guided pairing of the farms favorite wines and cheeses.
Teen Game Night
6 p.m. Atheneum gallery, 1 India St. Teens and tweens are invited to play a selection of Nintendo Switch games like Just Dance and Mario Party and more. The games will rotate and are first-come, first-served.
Gathering Together
6:30 p.m. Atheneum Learning Lab, 1 India St. Self-taught forager Sean Allen leads this workshop covering the necessary materials for gathering from the land, resources for identification and the importance of ethical and sustainable foraging practices. Register on calendar page of www.nantucketatheneum.org
Dreamland Storytelling: Lost & Found
7 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Celebrity and community storytellers will spin tales filled with poignancy, humor, suspense, empathy and more around the theme “Lost & Found.” Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org
Live Music: Cranberry Alarm Clock
7 p.m. Fairgrounds Restaurant, 27 Fairgrounds Road. Nantucket’s favorite Beatles tribute band Cranberry Alarm Clock will perform.
Live Music: Sean Lee
8 p.m. Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Nantucket singer-songwriter Sean Lee will perform. Second show 8 p.m. Saturday.
Karaoke
10 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Channel your inner rock star on The Rose & Crown stage.
Live Music: Allgood
9 p.m. The Muse, 44 Surfside Road. Southern fried blues-rock boogie band Allgood will perform. 21 and over. Tickets at www. musenantucket.com/shows.
Live Music: Maxxtone
10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. Springfield-born party band Maxxtone will perform. Additional shows Saturday and Sunday.
Live Music: Jamie McLean
10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Jamie McLean, who mixes New Orleans soul, American roots, Delta blues and New York swagger, will perform. 21 and over.
Saturday, Sept. 5 Bike Tour
7:30 a.m. Location provided upon registration. Avid cyclist and Nantucket Conservation Foundation trustee Jim Meehan leads this bike tour over the trails and dirt roads of the middle moors or Ram Pasture. Space is limited. Helmet and mountain bike suitable for rough roads required. Register on events page of www.nantucketconservation.org
Nantucket Clean Team
8 a.m. Handlebar Café, 15 Washington St., and corner of Milestone and Nobadeer Farm roads. The Nantucket Clean Team meets Saturdays from spring through fall to pick up trash around the island. Pickers and bags provided.
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Farmers & Artisans Market
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cambridge Street, between North Union and South Water streets. Sustainable Nantucket hosts a market of fresh local produce, island cottage-industry artisans and food. Weather permitting.
NanPuppets
9:30 a.m. Something Natural, 50 Cliff Road. Lizza Obremski brings her puppet friends for a half hour of education and fun. $10, kids under 1 free. Bring a blanket.
Four Centuries Architecture Tour
10 a.m. Oldest House, 16 Sunset Hill Lane. Jascin Leonardo Finger, Maria Mitchell Association deputy director and curator of the Mitchell House discusses the changes in domestic life over four centuries and how it shaped neighborhoods and land use. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org
Cinema for the Very Young
10:30 a.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Dreamland will screen a sensory-friendly Rated G or All Ages film/series whose title will not be announced in advance. Free. All children in attendance must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver throughout the 90-minute program.
Family Connections Tour
“Room for Us”
10:30 a.m. Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. Museum guides bring the NHA’s 2026 exhibit, “The Wider World and Scrimshaw,” to life with visual and tactile elements. Concludes with a take-home craft activity. Free with museum admission. Register on calendar page of www.nha.org
4 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Dreamland will screen the short Semester Cinema documentary “Room for Us? Confronting Nantucket’s Housing Crisis,” directed by Jasper Craven and Patrick Kennedy. Additional screenings through Sept. 10. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org
Live Music: Ian Biggs
Dreamland Conversations: The Midterms
Noon, Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. New Haven, Conn.-based singer-songwriter Ian Biggs will perform. Second show noon Sunday.
Bartlett Farm Walking Tour
2 p.m. Saturday and Wednesday, Meet in front of farm market, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. A free, 30-minute behind-the-scenes journey into 200 years of agricultural history on this farm owned by the same family since the early 1800s.
Live Music: Funky Dawgz Brass Band
4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Connecticut-based Funky Dawgz Brass Band will perform. Second show 3 p.m. Sunday.
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5 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. CNN senior political correspondent Kristen Holmes will moderate a discussion with political advisor John McCarthy and political commentator David Urban about the 2026 midterm congressional elections. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org
Jazz Night at the Fairgrounds
8 p.m. Fairgrounds Restaurant, 27 Fairgrounds Road. A rotating cast of island musicians and special guests perform an evening of live jazz.
Live Music: Better than Ezra
9:30 p.m. The Muse, 44 Surfside Road. New Orleans-based alt-rock band Better than Ezra will perform. 21 and over. Tickets at www.musenantucket.com/shows.
Karaoke 10 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Channel your inner rock star on The Rose & Crown stage.
DJ Pete 10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Nantucket’s own DJ, Pete Ahern, will man the turntables. 21 and over.
Sunday, Sept. 6 Live Music: Cranberry Alarm Clock 3-6 p.m. Sandbar, end of Bathing Beach Road. Nantucket’s favorite Beatles tribute band, Cranberry Alarm Clock, will perform.
Encore Presentation: 2025 Nantucket Shorts Festival 4 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Dreamland presents an encore screening of the 2025 Nantucket Shorts Festival, a series of short films ranging from 2-10 minutes created by amateur and professional island filmmakers.
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Activities: Absolute Sport Fishing 19 Straight Wharf (508) 325-4000 ACK Surf School 64 Nobadeer Ave (508) 246-7872 Albacore Charters Slip 1010, Straight Wharf (508) 228-5074 Albacore Charters Slip 1010 Straight Wharf (508) 228-5074 Altar Rock & The Moors 50 Altar Rock Rd Althea K Sport Fishing 50 Easton St (508) 325-2167
Cook’s Cycles Nantucket 6 S Beach St, Ste B (508) 458-8042
Linda Loring Nature Foundation 110 Eel Point Rd (508) 325-0873
Nantucket Historical Association 15 Broad St (508) 228-1894
Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge 107 Wauwinet Rd (508) 228-5646
Lisa Lynn Charters Town Pier, 34 Washington St (508) 221-6124
Nantucket Information Bureau 25 Federal St (508) 228-0925
Critter Cruise Straight Wharf, Slip 1018
Lost Farm Wildlife Sanctuary Hummock Pond Rd (508) 228-9208
Nantucket Island Tours 42 Straight Wharf (508) 228-0334
Masquetuck Reservation 15 Quaise Pasture Rd (508) 228-2884
Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge 107 Wauwinet Rd (978) 443-4661
Mass Audubon’s Sesachacha Heathlands Barnard Valley Rd (508) 228-9208
Nantucket Tug Company 34 Washington St (831) 251-8018
Cross Rip Outfitters 26 Mizzenmast Rd (508) 221-1201 Discover Nantucket Tours 77 Easton St (917) 716-5973 Discovery Playground at Hinsdale Park 54 Old South Rd Easy Riders Bicycle Rentals 65 Surfside Rd (508) 325-2722
Ara’s Tours 6 Fair St (508) 228-1951 Bamboo Forest 52 Madaket Rd
Endeavor Sailing Adventures Straight Wharf, Slip #1015 (508) 228-5585
Barrett’s Tours 25 Federal St (508) 228-0174
Gail’s Tours, Inc. 28 Longwood Dr (508) 257-6557
Bill Fisher Outfitters 20 N Cambridge St (203) 962-8867
Herbert T Sport Fishing Slip 14, Straight Wharf (508) 228-6655
Captain Tom’s Charters F St, Madaket (508) 228-4225
Island Bike Company Inc. 25 Old South Rd (508) 228-4070
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Cisco Brewery Tours 18b Federal St (508) 325-5929
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Just Do It Too 1013 Straight Wharf (508) 228-7448
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Nantucket Bike Shop 4 Broad St (508) 228-1999 Nantucket Bike Tours 77 Easton St (917) 716-5973 Nantucket By Water Slip 1011, Straight Wharf (508) 228-7037 Nantucket Community Sailing 4 Winter St (508) 228-6600
nantucketconservation.org 508-228-2884 Nantucket Fishing Hither Creek (508) 325-1575
Nantucket Walkabout 15 Washington St (508) 422-7466 Next Level Watersports 24 Washington St (508) 680-3343 Sandy Pedals Bikes 65 Surfside Rd (508) 680-4497 Sanford Farm 118 Madaket Rd (508) 228-2884 Sconset Bluff Walk 27 Bank St, Siasconset Sea Nantucket Paddle Sports Rentals and Tours 76 Washington St (508) 228-7499 Seabilly Fishing Charters Public Pier, F St (617) 943-1990 Serengeti Nantucket Tom Nevers Rd (508) 228-2884
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Your Destination for all things Nantucket Smith’s Point Madaket, MA Starr Fish Charters 34 Washington St, Slip 71 (508) 221-0298 Steve Tuna’s Beach Fishing Adventures Nantucket, MA (508) 325-5587 Swain’s Travel Inc. 35 Old South Rd, #2 (508) 228-3201 The Creeks Preserve 2 Milestone Road (508) 228-7240
Cavalier Ebanks Galleries 10 Federal St (508)325-4405
The Gallery at Four India Street 4 India St (508)228-8509
East End Gallery 3 Old North Wharf (508)228-4515
The Scrimshander Gallery 38 Centre St (508)228-1004
Eric Holch Gallery 5 Pine St (508)246-7653
Health & Wellness:
G.S. Hill Gallery 40 Straight Wharf (508)228-1353
HOSTETLER GALLERY 42 Centre St. 740-571-8180
Island Chiropractic Dr. Nicholas Ouellette, DC, PSP Chiropractic Physician 4 Bartlett Road • 508-325-4777 Primary Spine Practitioner nantucketchiropractic.com
Proudly serving the Nantucket community for over a decade, ACK Infusion (469) 235-7864 Dr. Ouellette provides comprehensive, compassionate Chiropractic care that goes beyond pain relief. ACK Natural Cannabis Dispensary Expert whole body joint and soft tissue care 19 Spearhead •Drive • Doctor-guided nutritional consultations & protocols (508) 901-5225 • Professional-grade supplement dispensary
MAST • Tailored exercise prescription Collective Wellness 49 Fairgrounds Road Custom-scanned orthotic inserts 35 B Old South•Road (508) 534-8378 (978) 771-8857 • Ergonomic assessments for you and your business.
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Topspin Fishing Charters Town Pier, 34 Washington St (508) 246-6210
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Tupancy Links 157 Cliff Rd (508) 228-2884
John Rugge Antiques Shop 5 India St (508)332-4256
Val’s Cab and Tours 5 Fairgrounds Rd (508) 228-9410
Marcus Foley | Thomas Macy Gallery 12 Straight Wharf (508)332-9833
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Nantucket Cycling & Fitness 25 Youngs Way (508) 901-5230
Windswept Bog 301 Polpis Rd (508) 228-2884
Pete’s Fresh Fish Prints 17 Old South Wharf (508)325-1842
Glistn Nantucket 5 Old South Road (774) 485-9605
Nantucket Energy Therapy 35 Old South Road (508) 901-3558
Young’s Bicycle Shop 6 Broad St (508) 228-1151
Pierce Galleries Inc. 5 S Water St (508)228-1789
Great Harbor Yacht Club 96 Washington Street (508) 325-5200
Nantucket Healing Arts 16 B Amelia Drive (203) 628-5827
Galleries:
Quidley & Company Fine Art Galleries 26 Main St (508)228-4300
Health Imperatives Nantucket 20 Vesper Lane #3 (508) 228-9189
Nantucket Health Club 10 Youngs Way (508) 228-4750
Artists Association of Nantucket Gallery 8 Federal St (508)228-0294
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110 Pleasant Street www.nantucketchiropractic.com (508) 825-9100
Sylvia Antiques 15 Main St (508)228-0960
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Nantucket Holistic Health 37 C Old South Road (508) 228-7577
Brass Lantern Inn 11 North Water St (508) 228-4064
Surfside Somatics 6 Holly Street (508) 901-9608
Carlisle House Inn 26 North Water St (508) 228-0720
The Copper Rose 16A Amelia Drive (508) 221-5023
CHAPMAN HOUSE 20 N Water St (855) 652-0137
The Green Lady Dispensary 11 Amelia Drive (774) 333-3875
Cliff Lodge Bed & Breakfast 9 Cliff Rd (508) 228-9480
The Westmoor Club 10 Westmoor Lane (508) 228-9494
Cliffside Beach Club 46 Jefferson Ave (508) 228-0618
Lodging:
Faraway Nantucket 29 Centre St (877) 279-1405
21 Broad Hotel 21 Broad St (508) 228-4749 29 Fair Street Inn 29 Fair St (508) 257-4577 29 India House Bed & Breakfast 29 India St (508) 228-0308 76 Main Ink Press Hotel 76 Main St (508) 228-2533 Anchor Inn 66 Centre St (508) 228-0072 Blue Iris 10 Hussey St (844) 970-3677 Brant Point Courtyard 15 Swain St (508) 228-0241
Greydon House 17 Broad St (508) 228-2468 Harborview Nantucket 24 Washington St (508) 301-7551 Hotel Pippa 5 Chestnut St (508) 228-5300 Jared Coffin House 29 Broad St (800) 248-2405 Life House Nantucket 10 Cliff Rd (508) 338-9816 Martin House Inn 61 Centre St (508) 228-0678 Seven Sea Street Inn 7 Sea St (508) 228-3577
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Sherburne Inn 10 Gay St (855) 652-0137 Ships Inn 13 Fair St (508) 228-0040 The Barnacle Inn 11 Fair St (508) 228-0332 The Beachside Hotel 30 North Beach St (833) 670-2164 The Brant 6 North Beach St (508) 960-6528 The Centerboard Nantucket 8 Chester St (508) 825-5954 The Chestnut House 3 Chestnut St (508) 228-0049 The Cottages at Nantucket Boat Basin 24 Old South Wharf (866) 838-9253 The Nantucket Hotel & Resort 77 Easton St (866) 807-6011 The Nantucket Inn 1 Miller Ln (508) 228-6900
The Veranda House 3 Step Ln (855) 652-0137 The Wade Cottages 35 Shell St (508) 680-1272 The Wauwinet 120 Wauwinet Rd (508) 228-0145 The White Elephant 50 Easton St (800) 445-6574 Union Street Inn 7 Union St (508) 228-9222
Nightlife: Brotherhood of Thieves 23 Broad St (774) 325-5812 Cisco Brewers 5 Bartlett Farm Rd (508) 325-5929 Dreamland 17 S Water St (508) 332-4822 Nantucket Tavern & Gazebo 1 Harbor Square (508) 228-1266
The Periwinkle Inn 9 North Water St (508) 228-9267
Sandbar at Jetties Beach Bar & Restaurant 4 Bathing Beach Rd #2234 (508) 228-2279
The Regatta Inn 78 Centre St (855) 652-0137
Sister Ship 29 Centre St (508) 257-1318
The Summer House Cottages 17 Ocean Ave (508) 257-4577
The Chicken Box 16 Dave St (508) 228-9717
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Your Destination for all things Nantucket The Club Car 1 Main St (508) 228-1101
Emma Ross Hair & Beauty 19 North Beach St (508) 228-0436
Nantucket Holistic Health 37 Old South Rd C (508) 228-7577
The Gaslight 3 N Union St (508) 228-6464
ES Beauty Lounge by Gen 35B Old South Rd (844) 666-0878
The Muse & Pizza Joint 44 Surfside Rd (508) 228-6873
Gigi Hair Studio 35C Old South Rd (508) 680-1394
Ocean Day Spa at The Nantucket Hotel 77 Easton St (508) 272-7703
The Rose and Crown 23 S Water St (508) 228-2595
Glistn Nantucket 5 Old South Rd (774) 485-9605
The Tree Bar 6 Oak St #3527 (508) 325-8696
Hair Concern 35 Old South Rd, Unit 4 (508) 228-4864
Salons & Spas:
Huna Bodywork with Allison 6 Toms Way (774) 812-8999
A Cut Above 14 Macys Ln (508) 228-4288 ACK Beauty & Barbershop 57 Old South Rd (508) 680-1188 BE ACK Salon 19 Washington St (508) 901-9630 Beauty Bar 3 Hanabea Ln (508) 228-1905 Color Up Nails & Spa 31 Old South Rd (508) 825-5505 Daiva Salon 56 Pleasant St (508) 325-4091 Darya Salon & Spa 7 South Beach St (508) 228-0550
Island Glow Nantucket 2 Sanford Road (508) 680-4715 L and R Barbershop 7A Hanabea Ln (774) 325-6836 Lavender Farm Wellness 6 West Creek Rd (508) 332-3382 Life Massage 13C Amelia Dr (508) 221-5412 Monarch Face & Body 37 Old South Rd (508) 680-1416
On Glaze 8 West Creek Rd (508) 228-6245 Rachel Dixon LLC – Massage & Wellness 4 Bartlett Rd (508) 364-2380
Wilbert Barber Shop 15 Amelia Dr (508) 208-7477
Shopping: Alice Walk 18b Federal St (508) 680-2423 Annie & the Tees 19 S Water St (508) 228-5505 ASHA Nantucket 18 Federal St (508) 221.6180 Assemble 18 Federal St (508) 680-1845
6 Amelia Dr. • 508-228-3446 rjmillersalons.com
Atlantic Nantucket 4 India St (508) 228-7776
Scissorhands 68 Old South Rd (508) 901-1417
Beau & Ro Nantucket 4 Federal St (508) 901-5792
Sisters’ Salon & Spa 117 Pleasant St (508) 228-7720
Byrdie by Nina Liddle Design 11 Washington St. (77) 333-3604
Suzanne’s Hair Design 78 Surfside Rd (508) 228-7444 Valero Salon & Spa 68 Old South Rd (508) 221-1648 White Elephant Spa by Darya 50 Easton St (508) 638-3440
Breezin Up 48 Main St (508) 325-4622 Cartolina 22 Centre Street (508) 228-4900
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Cattivo Nantucket 20 Centre St (508) 680-1215
Faherty Nantucket 0 Candle St (774) 325-5161
Centre Pointe 22 Centre St (508) 228-4900
For Now 48 Centre St
Charleston Shoe Co. 4 S Water St (508) 901-9134 Clorinda Antinori 58 Main St (508) 825-5321 Commonwealth 16 Federal St (508) 901-9222 D Dream & Poeta 26 Center St (508) 742-8328 Dairy Boy 14 Federal St (508) 901-2159 David Chase Inc 56 Main St (508) 325-8678 DAWN 2 Harbor Sq (508) 901-5406 DÔEN 32 Main St (877) 756-7353 Ellsworth + Ivey 34 Main St (774) 333-3661 Erica Wilson Inc 25 Main St (508) 228-9881 Erin Hielle Nantucket 0 Main St (508) 901-5561
Four Winds Gifts 8 Straight Wharf (508) 228-1597 Grace Geier 16 Straight Wharf #1 (603) 667-5862 Gypsy 20 Federal St (508) 228-4404 Hepburn 3 Salem St (508) 228-1458 Hill House Home 33 Main St Hospital Thrift Shop 17 India Street (508) 228-1125 Inkerman Nantucket 13 Centre St (508) 825-5865 Island Treasures Retail Store 128 Old South Rd (508) 228-0789 J. McLaughlin 1 Salem St (508) 325-6351 Julia Amory 28B Easy St (774) 325-5490 Ladybird Lingerie 7 Centre St (508) 228-6093
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Legit 12 Old South Wharf Levitate Surf Shack 39 Straight Wharf Lilly Pulitzer 5 S Water St (508) 228-0569 Long Wharf Supply Co. 31 Centre St Marissa Collections 25 Centre St (774) 325-5193 Milly & Grace 2 Washington St (508) 901-5051 Mitchell’s Book Corner 54 Main St (508) 228-1080 Monelle 32 Centre St (508) 680-1316 Murray’s Toggery Shop 62 Main St (508) 228-0437 Nalu 14 Cambridge St (508) 325-6110 Nantucket Bookworks 25 Broad St (508) 228-4000 Nantucket Clothing Company 6 S Water St (508) 228-3356 Nantucket Peddler 37 Straight Wharf (508) 325-5654
Nantucket Surf Club 21 S Water St (508) 325-2792 Peachtree Kids & Monogram Shop 19 Main St (508) 228-8555 Peter England Nantucket 3 Old South Wharf (508) 241-8301 Polo Ralph Lauren 16 Main St (508) 228-9451 REMY 2 Old South Wharf (617) 840-5898 Res Ipsa 3 India St (508) 955-2288 Respoke 41 Straight Wharf (508) 413-3221 Sal Amore 8 Washington St Sara Campbell 5 S Beach St (508) 680-1626 Seconds Shop 32 Sparks Ave (508) 228-6677 Serenella 9 S Beach St (508) 228-3400 Southern Tide Nantucket 34 Main St (774) 325-5171 STAUD 38 Center St (774) 485-2094
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Your Destination for all things Nantucket Stephanie’s Nantucket 42 Main St (508) 228-0624
University of Nantucket 14 S Water St (508) 228-4795
Jewel in the Sea 6 Straight Wharf (508) 228-2448
Trinity / E. Townsend Watch Collection 50 Main St (508) 220-7557
Steplane 29 Centre St (617) 455-2318
Valentina Kova 44 Main St (508) 257-2006
Jewelers’ Gallery 21 Centre St (508) 228-0229
Water Jewels 14 Centre St. (508) 228-0825
Summer Shades 16 Straight Wharf (508) 325-5530
Veronica Beard Nantucket 11 S Water St (508) 556-9936
Joy West Collection 14 South Water St
Farm & Market:
Sunken Ship 12 Broad St (508) 228-9226
Vineyard Vines 2 Straight Wharf (508) 325-9600
Lemon & Line 43 Straight Wharf
Bartlett’s Farm 33 Bartlett Farm Rd (508) 228-9403
The Black Dog Nantucket 40 Straight Wharf (508) 325-5411
Jewelry:
Melissa Dudley Designs 10 Main St, Sconset (508) 221-9521
Moors End Farm 40 Polpis Rd (508) 228-2674
Anna P. Jay 5 Washington St (508) 680-3518
Nantucket Estate Jewelry 1 Orange Street (508) 280-1958
Pumpkin Pond Farm 25 Millbrook Rd (508) 221-2254
Barbara Harris Water Jewels 14 Centre St (508) 228-0825
Pageo Jewelers - Nantucket 46 Main Street (508) 343-8628
Sconset Market 4 Main Street, Siasconset (508) 257-9915
R Simantov 1 Old North Wharf (917) 324-4410
Sustainable Nantucket 14 Federal St (508) 228-3399
Seaman Schepps 47 Main St (508) 325-5806
Nantucket Meat & Fish Market 21 Old South Rd (774) 333-5176
Susan Lister Locke Jeweler 28 Easy Street (508) 221-0531
167 Raw Nantucket 167 Hummock Pond Rd (508) 228-2871
The Love Shack by LOLA 10 Old South Wharf (774) 325-5982
Pip & Anchor 14 Amelia Dr (508) 413-9940
The Dress Code 9 Centre St (508) 680-1716 The General Store by Roller Rabbit 44 Centre St (917) 692-0316 The Rainbow Fleet 167 Orange St (508) 680-1159 The Shop by WHEAT Nantucket 5 S Water St (774) 382-6787 The Skinny Dip: A Summer Collective 23 Old South Wharf (508) 901-5870 Townpool 53 Main St Trish Wescoat Pound 33 Main St (774) 317-5790 Tuckernuck 23 Centre St
Blue Beetle 12 Main St (508) 228-3227 Craftmasters of Nantucket 7 India St (508) 228-0322 Hart 25B Washington St (854) 333-7670 Heidi Weddendorf Jewelry (774) 236-9064 Icarus + C° 19 Old South Wharf
The Vault Nantucket 33 Centre Street (508) 825-6764
Jessica Hicks 2 Union St
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Kids Fun Run
Beginner’s Ukulele
5:30 p.m. Nantucket Community Music Center, 56 Centre St. No instrument? No problem. Ukuleles available. All ages welcome. Free.
5:15 p.m. 7 Nobadeer Farm Road. The Nantucket Athletic Association hosts halfmile and one-mile fun runs for kids in eighth grade and younger. Must sign waiver at nantucketathleticassociation.com
Karaoke
Live Music: PJ Moody
6 p.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Nantucket singer-songwriter PJ Moody will perform. Free.
10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Channel your inner rock star on the Gaslight stage.
“Prelude to a Kiss”
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Monday, Sept. 7
9 a.m. Location provided upon registration. Nantucket Conservation Foundation director of research Danielle O’Dell discusses what the NCF and its conservation partners are doing to create healthier pitch pine forests. Register on calendar page of www. nantucketconservation.org
Labor Day
Somatic Yoga
7:30 p.m. Nantucket Performing Arts Center, 5 North Water St. NPAC presents “Prelude to a Kiss,” written by Craig Lucas and directed by Mark Shanahan. Visit www. nantucketperformingarts.org for tickets, dates and times.
Live Music: Ankle Slappers
4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. High-energy party band Ankle Slappers will perform. Second show 4 p.m. Tuesday. I&M
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12:30 p.m. Atheneum gallery, 1 India St. A 45-minute yoga session of slow, focused movement, concluding with full body relaxation. Bring your own mat. Space is limited. Registration required on calendar page of www.nantucketatheneum.org
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Golden Age Films: “Our Town”
1:30 p.m. The Dreamland will screen 1940’s “Our Town,” starring William Holden and Martha Scott. Free for seniors. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org
Saltmarsh in Nature
2:30 p.m. Saltmarsh Senior Center, 81 Washington St. The Linda Loring Nature Foundation and Saltmarsh Senior Center host this nature exploration into investigating water quality. Registration required by calling (508) 228-4490.
Brant Point Runners
5:30 p.m. between 36 and 40 Easton St. Brant Point Runners meets weekly Tuesday nights at 5:30 p.m. at the Nantucket Conservation Foundation space between 36 and 40 Easton St., for a friendly but competitive 5K run. All are welcome.
Meditation
6 p.m. Atheneum gallery, 1 India St. A short talk, guided meditation and time for reflection and questions. Registration recommended on calendar page of www.nantucketatheneum.org
Open Arts Night
6:30 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. The stage and mic are still open for any and all, but the library has added an arts a crafts component so people may feel free to come and work on any kind of art project while listening to the entertainment.
Author Talk: Daniel Kraus
7 p.m. online at www.nantucketatheneum.org. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus will discuss his new novel “The Sixth Nik.” Register on calendar page of www.nantucketatheneum.org.
Trivia
9:30 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 21 South Water St. Test your knowledge for a chance to earn bragging rights and gift cards.
Wednesday, Sept. 9 Birding Field Trip
7:45 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. Explore Nantucket’s birding hot spots and observe birds in their natural habitat. Binoculars, a spotting scope and field guides available to borrow. Free, but registration required on calendar page of www.llnf.org
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Book-signing: Elin Hilderbrand
11 a.m. Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main St. Best-selling island author Elin Hilderbrand will sign copies of her books. The first 100 people in line will get a ticket. Line starts at 10 a.m. Only books purchased at Mitchell ’s and Bookworks can be autographed.
Children’s Chess Club
3 p.m. Atheneum garden courtyard, 1 India St. Young chess players of all abilities are encouraged to check out the Atheneum’s Chess Club. Intended for grades two-six. No registration required.
Live Music: Buckle & Shake
4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Nantucket’s own alt-country band Buckle & Shake will perform.
Nantucket Climate Change Summit
4:30 p.m. Great Harbor Yacht Club, 96 Washington St. The 2026 Nantucket Climate Change Summit brings together island scientific organizations with climate action team members from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute to discuss how the island is adapting to climate change in the future. Register on calendar page of www.llnf.org
Teen Trivia
4:30 p.m. Atheneum gallery, 1 India St. An evening of trivia just for teens. Bring a friend or come alone and test your skills. Snacks.
Live Music: Young the Giant
7:30 p.m. The Muse, 44 Surfside Road. California-based rock band Young the Giant will perform. 21 and over. Tickets at www. musenantucket.com/shows.
Gallery, 8 Federal St. The Artists Association of Nantucket will host a reception for its 10-by-10 exhibition, on display through Aug. Sept. 22.
Game Night
Live Music: Doug & Co.
6 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. Deep thinkers and ponderers wanted for thoughtful and engaging conversation. Led by reference library staff member James Grieder. All are welcome.
5:30 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. Tabletop board and card games, including Mag-ACK The Gathering and drop-in Dungeons and Dragons. Intended for adults and teens. Free.
Knitting Group
6:30 p.m. Atheneum first floor, 1 India St. Curious about learning how to knit? The Atheneum’s veteran knitters can get you started. Stymied by a challenge in your project? The group can help with that. Free. Drop-ins welcome.
Film for Thought: “Union County”
7 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Inquirer and Mirror and the Dreamland present 2026’s “Union County,” starring Will Poulter and Noah Centineo, as part of their “Film for Thought” weekly film series. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org
10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Nantucket’s own jam band Doug & Co., inspired by the Grateful Dead, will perform. 21 and over.
Philosophy Club
“The Mousetrap”
Thursday, Sept. 10 Ecologist in Training
8 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. This LLNF workshop will explore the techniques used in professional bird banding with master bird-bander Libby Buck. Register on calendar page of www.llnf.org
7 p.m. Bennett Hall, 62 Centre St. Theatre Workshop of Nantucket presents and adaptation of Agatha Christie’s timeless whodunit, “The Mousetrap.” Visit www.theatrenantucket.org for tickets, additional dates and times.
Live Music: The Rollin’ Bones
Live Music: B3 Kings
9 p.m. The Muse, 44 Surfside Road. Classic rock collaboration and cover band The Rollin’ Bones will perform. 21 and over. Tickets at www.musenantucket.com/shows.
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10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Nantucket’s own roots reggae band, Foggy Roots, will perform.
4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Boston-based groove, soul and jazz-boogaloo band B3 Kings will perform. 5 p.m. Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson
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